formmail question

[paulj]

Form mail was working up to about the 28th of may as far as I know. It has stopped working or so I found out today. The pathway was "formmail.cgi-sys" and it was working. As a matter of fact it was the only way it would work back at the first of march this year. So my question is has there been a change and if so what is the proper pathway.

I will check back later today to see if there is an answer. Or if you don't want to post it here please email me.

Thanks in advance.

Paul J

[stratplan]

here's some info on it:
Form mail discussion

I suggest you use cgiemail instead.

[digitalbytez]

I also am having issues with this Time zone thing. I am not getting Dropped Delivery notices sometimes because the timestamps assumes it is already old and dead.

What is the problem with going to something universal like GMT? When I worked at a Network Operations Center for the Government all the servers around the world were set to GMT Casablanca Monrovia and used NTP to keep National Security Agency standards on the servers +- 3 seconds globally in sync.

It made life simple because whoever and wherever people were could adjust for their location for local issues and not have to take off their shoes in order to count and figure out what time it was in Egypt or China to adjust.

when running GMT it is universal, I just think the servers should be on the same sheet of music as the big boyz. let the webmasters in all of the timezones set their offsets according to their needs.

If page-zone is global or plans to I just see the setting it to some USA time zone that changes as a mess for everyone else in the long term.

Respectfully,

Sere

[prince]

I like using the server time (for it's time zone) i.e. setting scripts based on the server time is my 'favorite'

There is no way to make everyone happy with 'time'

Time is relative

[TechWeasel]

I saw this post also over in the "Clock Time Server" thread:

http://www.page-zone.com/forums/show...5&pagenumber=1

If you read through the start of the thread, PZ tried to switch to GMT and it created a wave of problems with server drift and strange script bugs for the customers, so they moved back to EST.

I really don't give two hoots either way. It's no more difficult to use my GMT offset than it is to take my GMT offset and subtract 5 (EST = GMT - 5 ).

when running GMT it is universal, I just think the servers should be on the same sheet of music as the big boyz. let the webmasters in all of the timezones set their offsets according to their needs.

I'd argue that running GMT isn't universal. Most servers are set to their geographic locals to facilitate time/date stamp comprehension and whatnot - unless you need parity between a geographically distributed network.

Incidentally, mail servers should automatically correct for time zone if your time zone message headers are configured properly.